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2012 Bill(s)
* HCS SS SB 448 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H Rules Description: Give the Health Department the power to investigate and shut down an unlicensed child care provider if there are pending criminal charges against the provider. Increase child care license violation penalties. Give the state power to immediately close an illegal, unlicensed facility.
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SB 449 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Perf Description: Require the Mental Health Department to develop a plan for moving residents out of state-funded facilities for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled to other settings.
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SB 450 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED Description: Retain the three-year term provision rather than six years for a school district that becomes an urban district because of the 2010 census. Urban district members serve six-year terms. Applies to St. Charles County schools.
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SB 483 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Education Description: Provide a college scholarship program for students who graduate from high school early. The scholarship would cover both public and private higher education institutions.
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* HCS SCS SB 484 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H Rules Description: Various restrictions on telemarketing. Expand the state's no-call law on telemarketers to include cell phones. Restrict blocking caller IDs and robocalls. Require a political solicitation call to identify the sponsor of the call.
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HCS SB 620 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H 3rd Read Description: Allow Missouri insurance companies to write some types of insurance outside of the U.S.
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* SCS SB 657 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Perf Description: Provide lawsuit protection for a health care provider or institution to refuse any medical service that violates the provider's religious, moral or ethical principles. Prohibit dismissal or job punishment for refusing.
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* SB 658 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Health Description: Require RU-486 or any abortion inducing medication to be administered in a hospital or abortion facility in the presence of a physician.
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HCS SB 721 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H 3rd Read Description: Restrict tax increment financing projects in the St. Louis area that provide tax breaks to developers. Restrict a county from overriding a TIF commission rejection unless a majority of the TIF commission members voted for a project.
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SB 774 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: IN SCS SB 817 Description: Require the Secretary of State to post on the Web the text of proposed initiative petitions.
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SS SB 803 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H Professional Registration Description: Expand the law on licensing behavior analysts to include provisional and temporary licenses. Repeal an older statute on provision licenses.
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SB 847 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: IN SCS SB 767 Description: Designate a portion of Highway 64/40 in St. Charles County the Darrell B Roegner Memorial Highway.
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SB 848 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Financial Description: Change the method for calculating interest rates for a variety state government financial transactions.
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HCS SCS SB 856 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: H 3rd Read Description: Create a Senate committee to study whether to privatize the Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company that provides Workers' Compensation coverage for businesses. Prompted by a state audit criticizing the financial transactions of the quasi-governmental agency.
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* SCS SJR 47 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S Perf Description: Repeal the constitutional ban on the legislature appropriating funds to aid a church or private school.
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* SJR 49 Sponsor:Rupp, Scott Status: S General Laws Description: Prohibit government from requiring health insurance cover abortion, contraceptives or sterilization.
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